The Miraculous & Unlikely Renaissance of Geno Smith

From forgotten backup to a stars replacement to the leader of the Seahawks, a most unlikely football success story

In sports, we operate with the premise of a timeline. When a player is drafted by a team in any sport, there is a clock that starts ticking on when the prospect becomes the star player. And because we now live in a high-stakes professional sports world, this time frame of expectations has gotten smaller and smaller. The quarterback position especially has extensive scrutiny and timelines associated with it. If a quarterback drafted in the first round hasn’t led a team to meaningful success in the way of playoff appearances within a few years then often the team will move on and most times that means that the player is relegated to being a journeyman backup. This entire dynamic is what makes the breakout season of Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith all the more unusual and remarkable. Written off as a bust years ago, Smith is having a renaissance at 32 years old that no one saw coming.

The Road to Success

Like many players taken in the first few rounds of the NFL Draft, Geno Smith came with an impressive…